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Police: Athens woman stabs cheating boyfriend

Athens-Clarke County police said they arrested an Athens woman Thursday night after she stabbed her boyfriend because he was cheating on her.

Randi Marie Houser, 30, of North Bluff Road, was charged with aggravated assault.

Her 30-year-old boyfriend first tried covering up the assault, saying he had fallen and got cut by a piece of glass on the floor, police said. He also told police a friend drove him to the hospital.

He gave the true story after police said his wound was inconsistent with an injury caused by a piece of glass, according to police.

After the alleged assault, police said Houser dropped off the victim at Athens Regional Medical Center and then drove home, where she was later questioned and arrested.

Police became involved when they were alerted by a hospital employee that a possible assault victim had come to the emergency room for treatment.

While an officer spoke with the victim, a doctor came in the room to inform his patient he had suffered internal injuries.

“After hearing the status of (the victim’s) wound I explained to (him) that I did not believe the way he claimed he was injured could have caused that much internal damage to his lung,” the officer wrote in a police incident report.

The officer said in the report that he could tell the victim was conflicted and that the man asked if they could speak some more “after medical staff took care of his lung.”

Meanwhile, other officers went to the couple’s home to find Houser.

After the victim received additional medical treatment, police informed him that his girlfriend admitted to stabbing him.

The man at that point changed his story.

He told police that he and Houser had argued because she refused to get out of bed to drive him to work, according to the incident report.

“He stated that she was still upset with him because she caught him cheating with another woman,” according to the report.

When the victim pulled the bed covers back, police said, Houser allegedly jumped up and told him “he could call one of his other women.” She then stabbed him, according to the report.